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titles as Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, Kid Code by graphic artist John Jennings, The Little Red Fish by designer Bizhan Khodabandeh, and DayBlack by comix/tattoo artist Keef Cross.
The Authors
Marilag Angway prefers her steampunk to take place in the
skies as often as possible, though is not opposed to a good romp on terra
firma. Her
stories can be found in various anthologies, including those published by Bards
and Sages Publishing, Hadley Rille Books, Deepwood Publishing, and Ticonderoga
Publications. For her random
book and overall nerdish musings, check out her blog: http://storyandsomnomancy.wordpress.com/.
Don’t forget to grab a cookie and a cup of tea on your way out!
Paolo Chikiamco is a Manila-based Filipino writer whose has edited Alternative
Alamat (an anthology of stories that reimagine Philippine
mythology) and Kwentillion (a young
adult-focused comics magazine). His fiction has been published in such venues as Scheherazade’s
Façade, Philippine Genre Stories, Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution, Lauriat,
and The Philippine Speculative Fiction series. He has also written comics
such as High Society,
Mythspace (a series
which uses Philippine folklore as the basis for a space opera tale), as well as
an interactive wrestling novel for Choice of Games called Slammed!
(choiceofgames.com/slammed/) Find him on
Twitter as @anitero.
Timothy James M. Dimacali is a Filipino science fiction author
and the Science and Technology Editor of a major Philippine media network. His
short fiction “Skygypsies” is required reading in some Philippine
high school and college English classes and has since been adapted into a comic
book (available for free at Flipreads.com). You can follow him on Twitter: @tjdimacali.
L.L. Hill’s fiction has appeared in the Third Flatiron
anthology, Playing with Fire (Pushcart nomination), Domain
SF, Hello Horror, and elsewhere. Her first Steampunk piece, the inspiration for “Ordained,” came from
Phu Phra Bat National Historic Park and the adjacent Mekong River area of Nong
Khai which she visited in October 2012. www.lauraleehill.com
Alessa Hinlo writes fiction that spans the thriller,
fantasy, and horror genres. Born in the Philippines and raised in Northern Virginia,
she’s most interested in stories that reflect the push and pull of conflicting cultures
and feature people who fall into the spaces between. Her other interests
include vegetable gardening, crafting, and yoga. She tweets regularly at @alessahinlo.
Olivia Ho is a writer born and based in Singapore. She owes the inspiration for her work to her parents—her mother, who taught her
how to love the history of her island, and her father, whose idea of steampunk
is “KILLER ROBOT SAMSUI WOMEN.” Besides writing, her other random talents
include Arabic bellydance, stage management, and knitting, and perhaps one day
all three at the same time.
Robert Liow, also known as Robert Bivouac, is a
Chinese-Malaysian writer currently living in Singapore. An advocate for racial
justice and diversity in media, he has appeared in the inaugural Singapore
Poetry Writing Month (“SingPoWriMo”)
anthology and several publications by Singapore’s Creative Arts Programme.
Pear Nuallak was born in South London of Bangkokian
artists. They studied History of Art jointly with SOAS and UCL (University of
London) focusing on Thai Buddhist art, hybridity, globalization, and
postcoloniality. They are interested in
food, fiction, disruptive domesticity, and textiles. They may be found on a
sofa in North London, having opinions while knitting.
Ivanna S. Mendels writes fantasy, science fiction, and
steampunk, even children’s picture books. Her Opera Dinosaur book was published in France and
another of her Asian steampunk short stories will soon be published in
Indonesia. Her steampunk stories are partly influenced by Alfred Russel Wallace’s descriptions of
South East Asia in his books. You can follow her on
Twitter at @wulfettenoire
Kate Osias has won four Don Carlos Palanca Memorial
Awards for Literature, the Gig Book Contest, Canvas Story Writing Contest, and
the 10th Romeo Forbes Children’s Storywriting Competition. She has earned a
citation in the international Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for her story,
“The Riverstone Heart of Maria de la Rosa” (Serendipity,
2007). Her works appear in LONTAR: Journal of Southeast Asian
Speculative Fiction #1, various Philippine
Speculative Fiction anthologies, Horror: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults, Maximum Volume,
and the WFC Unconventional Fantasy (2014).
z.m. quỳnh huddles in deep East Oakland in a room tinged
with blue, nursing calloused hands worn down from the chronic transcription of
restless dreams. past lives have included scattered jaunts through urban
minefields with each misstep hinting at a life less easily mapped out by this
amateur cartographer.The SEA Is Ours will be quỳnh’s debut in spec fic.
Nghi Vo lives on the shores of Lake Michigan, and her
fiction has appeared in
Strange Horizons, Expanded Horizons,
Crossed Genres, and
Icarus Magazine. She likes
stories about things that fall through the cracks and live on the edges, and
she has a deep love for tales of revolution (personal and political),
transfiguration, and transmutation. She’s a writer by trade, a storyteller by
nature, a volunteer by inclination, and a dreamer by design.
The Artists
Trungles is a Vietnamese American comic artist living
and working in Minnesota. He specializes in fairy stories and fantastical
narrative works, borrowing heavily from ephemera and early 20th century illustrations for
children’s stories . His works include explorations of uneasy
transitions in and around interpersonal and cultural spaces. You can find his
portfolio here: http://www.trungles.com/
Shelley Low is a Singaporean animator/illustrator
currently residing Stateside. Things close to her heart include: milo dinosaurs,
weird animals, offbeat fantasy novels, old monster movies, hand-drawn
animation, and DOTA 2. Find her on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/fawndogart
Kim Miranda grew up both in the Philippines and the U.S. She is currently a freelance artist located in Texas and does children’s book illustration on the side. Kim is also SUPER into character design, and is passionate about studying art history, comics, poetry, indigenous world culture, and human rights. Her portfolio is can be found at https://kimmiranda.carbonmade.com/
Wina Oktavia is a comic artist based out of Jakarta who has
done work for publishers in Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as several
self-published works. She recently won an award for Japan's Silent Manga
Audition and is the author of a webcomic called Traceless Knight (tracelessknight.com).
Her work is here: http://veleries.com/
Borg Sinaban is an illustrator currently living and working in Manila.
He’s one of the founding members of a local comic book studio, Studio Salimbal. He has published books through Visprint and Adarna House.He’s been an active member of
Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan (Ang INK) since 2013. His portfolio is at
https://www.behance.net/borgsinaban and his blog is at http://borgsinaban.tumblr.com/
Stephani Soejono storyboards by day
and dreams up comics at night. (but sometimes she illustrates things too) She
currently lives in Jakarta and enjoys tempe mendoan at home. You can find her
work in
Liquid City 3 (Image Comics)
and check out her work at
http://sstephani.blogspot.com or her sketchblog at
http://lindbloem.tumblr.comThe Editrixes
Joyce Chng lives in
Singapore, where she raises two cute kids, teaches schoolchildren, and writes
high, historical, space, and urban fantasy set in and around the city where she
lives. A prolific writer, Joyce spends her days putting out chapters on her
Patreon. She co-edited Ayam Curtain, an anthology of literary speculative microfiction,
about the city-nation of Singapore. Find her at http://awolfstale.wordpress.com
Jaymee Goh has lived in
Malaysia, Canada, and now the United States. She is best known for her postcolonial
steampunk blog, Silver Goggles, and spends her days researching steampunk from
a critical race theory perspective for her PhD dissertation. She co-edited The Omnibus of Doctor Bill Shakes and the Magnificent Ionic Pentatetrameter, and
has published short fiction (Expanded Horizons and Crossed Genres), nonfiction
(WisCon Chronicles 5 and Steampunk III: Steampunk Reloaded),
reviews (Tor.com and Science Fiction Studies), and poetry (Stone Telling and Strange Horizons). Find her at http://silver-goggles.blogspot.com
or http://jhameia.blogspot.com.
Special Thanks
Khor Shing Yin, artist of our stellar cover! Her website is http://www.sawdustbear.com/
Nisi Shawl, SF/F elder and mentor advising our campaign! Find out more about her at http://www.nisishawl.com/
